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1910</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">President of <a href="/wiki/General_Motors" title="General Motors">General Motors</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1920–1923</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/William_C._Durant" title="William C. Durant">William C. Durant</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Alfred_P._Sloan_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Alfred P. Sloan Jr.">Alfred P. Sloan Jr.</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Pierre Samuel du Pont</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1870-01-15</span>)</span>January 15, 1870<br /><a href="/wiki/Wilmington,_Delaware" title="Wilmington, Delaware">Wilmington, Delaware</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">April 4, 1954<span style="display:none">(1954-04-04)</span> (aged 84)<br />Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Resting place</th><td class="infobox-data label">Du Pont de Nemours Cemetery</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Alice Belin<br /></div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}</style><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip" title="October 16, 1915">1915</span>; died <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip" title="June 23, 1944">1944</span>)<wbr /></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relations</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ir%C3%A9n%C3%A9e_du_Pont" title="Irénée du Pont">Irénée du Pont</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Lammot_du_Pont_II" title="Lammot du Pont II">Lammot du Pont II</a></li><li>(brothers)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parent(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Lammot_du_Pont" class="mw-redirect" title="Lammot du Pont">Lammot du Pont</a><br />Mary Belin du Pont</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Residence(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Longwood_Gardens" title="Longwood Gardens">Longwood Gardens</a> (<a href="/wiki/Kennett_Square,_Pennsylvania" title="Kennett Square, Pennsylvania">Kennett Square, Pennsylvania</a>, U.S.)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology" title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data">Businessman, philanthropist</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Pierre Samuel du Pont</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="'d' in 'dye'">d</span><span title="/uː/: 'oo' in 'goose'">uː</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'p' in 'pie'">p</span><span title="/ɒ/: 'o' in 'body'">ɒ</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span><span title="'t' in 'tie'">t</span></span>/</a></span></span>; January 15, 1870 – April 4, 1954) was an American entrepreneur, businessman, philanthropist and member of the prominent <a href="/wiki/Du_Pont_family" title="Du Pont family">du Pont family</a>. </p><p>He was president of <a href="/wiki/DuPont_(1802-2017)" class="mw-redirect" title="DuPont (1802-2017)">DuPont</a> from 1915 to 1919, and was on its <a href="/wiki/Board_of_directors" title="Board of directors">board of directors</a> until 1940. He also managed <a href="/wiki/General_Motors_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="General Motors Corporation">General Motors</a> from 1915 to 1920, became GM's president in 1920,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was on GM's board of directors until 1928.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Among other notable accomplishments, he was among the founding board of directors of the <a href="/wiki/Empire_State_Building" title="Empire State Building">Empire State Building</a> which opened in 1931. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pierre_S._du_Pont&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Du Pont was born January 15, 1870, on the family estate near <a href="/wiki/Wilmington,_Delaware" title="Wilmington, Delaware">Wilmington, Delaware</a>, and was named after his great-great-grandfather, <a href="/wiki/Pierre_Samuel_du_Pont_de_Nemours" title="Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours">Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours</a>. He was the eldest of three sons born to <a href="/wiki/Lammot_du_Pont" class="mw-redirect" title="Lammot du Pont">Lammot du Pont</a> and Mary Belin. </p><p>His great-great-grandfather, and namesake, was a French economist (who had been granted the ennobling suffix "de Nemours" after election to the Constituent Assembly) and patriarch of the du Pont family. Du Pont de Nemours immigrated to America with relatives including his son, <a href="/wiki/Eleuth%C3%A8re_Ir%C3%A9n%C3%A9e_du_Pont" class="mw-redirect" title="Eleuthère Irénée du Pont">Eleuthère Irénée du Pont</a>, who founded the <a href="/wiki/DuPont" title="DuPont">DuPont</a> company in 1802, and whose descendants would form one of the richest American business dynasties of the ensuing two centuries.<sup id="cite_ref-Bedingfield1954_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bedingfield1954-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1884 his father was killed in an industrial accident. As the eldest son of ten children he was patriarch of the family. For the rest of their lives, his siblings, even his older sisters, addressed him as "Dad" or "Daddy."<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He attended <a href="/wiki/MIT" class="mw-redirect" title="MIT">MIT</a> and graduated with a degree in chemistry in 1890. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pierre_S._du_Pont&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Following graduation from MIT in 1890, he became assistant <a href="/wiki/Management" title="Management">superintendent</a> at <a href="/wiki/Eleutherian_Mills" title="Eleutherian Mills">Eleutherian Mills</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Brandywine_Creek_(Christina_River)" class="mw-redirect" title="Brandywine Creek (Christina River)">Brandywine River</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-PSdPObit1954_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PSdPObit1954-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He and his cousin <a href="/wiki/Francis_Gurney_du_Pont" title="Francis Gurney du Pont">Francis Gurney du Pont</a> developed the first American <a href="/wiki/Smokeless_powder" title="Smokeless powder">smokeless powder</a> in 1892 at the <a href="/wiki/Carney%27s_Point" class="mw-redirect" title="Carney's Point">Carney's Point</a> plant in New Jersey. </p><p>Most of the 1890s he spent working with the management at a steel firm partly owned by DuPont (primarily by <a href="/wiki/T._Coleman_du_Pont" title="T. Coleman du Pont">T. Coleman du Pont</a>), the Johnson Street Rail Company in <a href="/wiki/Johnstown,_Pennsylvania" title="Johnstown, Pennsylvania">Johnstown, Pennsylvania</a>. Here he learned to deal with money from the company's president, Arthur Moxham. In 1899, unsatisfied with how conservative DuPont's management was, he quit and took over the Johnson Company. In 1901, while du Pont was supervising the liquidation of Johnson Company assets in <a href="/wiki/Lorain,_Ohio" title="Lorain, Ohio">Lorain, Ohio</a>, he employed <a href="/wiki/John_J._Raskob" title="John J. Raskob">John J. Raskob</a> as a private secretary, beginning a long and profitable business and personal relationship between the two. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Expansion_of_DuPont">Expansion of DuPont</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pierre_S._du_Pont&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Expansion of DuPont"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Pierre_Samuel_du_Pont_TIME_Magazine_January_31,_1927.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Pierre_Samuel_du_Pont_TIME_Magazine_January_31%2C_1927.jpg/220px-Pierre_Samuel_du_Pont_TIME_Magazine_January_31%2C_1927.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="290" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Pierre_Samuel_du_Pont_TIME_Magazine_January_31%2C_1927.jpg/330px-Pierre_Samuel_du_Pont_TIME_Magazine_January_31%2C_1927.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Pierre_Samuel_du_Pont_TIME_Magazine_January_31%2C_1927.jpg 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="527" /></a><figcaption>du Pont on the cover of the January 31, 1927 issue of <i><a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">TIME</a></i> magazine</figcaption></figure> <p>He and his cousins, <a href="/wiki/Alfred_I._du_Pont" title="Alfred I. du Pont">Alfred I. du Pont</a> and <a href="/wiki/T._Coleman_du_Pont" title="T. Coleman du Pont">T. Coleman du Pont</a>, purchased E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company in 1902, in order to keep the company in family hands, after the death of its <a href="/wiki/President_(corporate_title)" title="President (corporate title)">president</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eugene_du_Pont" title="Eugene du Pont">Eugene I. du Pont</a>. They set about buying smaller powder firms. Until 1914, during Coleman du Pont's illness, Pierre du Pont served as treasurer, executive vice-president, and acting president.<sup id="cite_ref-75th1945_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75th1945-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1915, a group headed by Pierre, which included outsiders, bought Coleman's stock.<sup id="cite_ref-1915BuyOut_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1915BuyOut-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1915Reorg_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1915Reorg-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Alfred was offended and sued Pierre for breach of trust. </p><p>Pierre was DuPont's president until 1919. Pierre gave the DuPont company a modern management structure and modern accounting policies and made the concept of return on investment primary. During <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>, the company grew very quickly due to advance payments on <a href="/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_I" title="Allies of World War I">Allied</a> munition contracts. He also established many other DuPont interests in other industries.<sup id="cite_ref-PSdPObit1954_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PSdPObit1954-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was featured on the cover of <i><a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a></i> magazine's January 31, 1927, issue. That same year he was elected an honorary member of the Delaware <a href="/wiki/Society_of_the_Cincinnati" title="Society of the Cincinnati">Society of the Cincinnati</a>. In 1930, he was elected a director of the <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania_Railroad" title="Pennsylvania Railroad">Pennsylvania Railroad</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1930Election_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1930Election-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="General_Motors">General Motors</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pierre_S._du_Pont&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: General Motors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1915, Du Pont was elected a director of <a href="/wiki/General_Motors" title="General Motors">General Motors</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1915Election_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1915Election-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> where he was a significant figure in the success of the company and was noted for building a sizeable personal investment in the company as well as supporting <a href="/wiki/John_J._Raskob" title="John J. Raskob">John J. Raskob</a>'s proposal for DuPont to invest in the automobile company.<sup id="cite_ref-1920Acquisition_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1920Acquisition-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1920, he became president of General Motors succeeding <a href="/wiki/William_C._Durant" title="William C. Durant">William C. Durant</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-1920Presidency_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1920Presidency-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and resigned in 1923, when he was succeeded by <a href="/wiki/Alfred_P._Sloan_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Alfred P. Sloan Jr.">Alfred P. Sloan Jr.</a><sup id="cite_ref-1923Resignation_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1923Resignation-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Pierre du Pont resigned the chairmanship of GM in response to GM President <a href="/wiki/Alfred_P._Sloan" title="Alfred P. Sloan">Alfred Sloan's</a> dispute with Raskob over Raskob's involvement with the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_National_Committee" title="Democratic National Committee">Democratic National Committee</a>. When du Pont retired from its board of directors, GM was the largest company in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-PSdPObit1954_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PSdPObit1954-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="DuPont_and_MIT">DuPont and MIT</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pierre_S._du_Pont&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: DuPont and MIT"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Du Pont was one of the first of many of his family members to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Both his younger brothers, <a href="/wiki/Ir%C3%A9n%C3%A9e_du_Pont" title="Irénée du Pont">Irénée du Pont</a> (1897) and <a href="/wiki/Lammot_du_Pont_II" title="Lammot du Pont II">Lammot du Pont II</a> (1901), graduated from MIT. Du Pont, his relations and the DuPont corporation were generous benefactors over the years, and helped set up multiple endowments, fellowships, scholarships and faculty chairs for the university. When MIT moved to its current location in Cambridge in 1917, Pierre, T. Coleman du Pont and <a href="/wiki/Charles_Hayden_(banker)" title="Charles Hayden (banker)">Charles Hayden</a> donated $215,000 to house the Department of Mining, Engineering and Metallurgy (now the Department of Materials Science and Engineering).<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Du Pont was on multiple boards and committees, and from 1916 to 1951 he was a member of the MIT Corporation, the university's board of trustees. Along with his brother Lammot, he was given the honor of being made a life member emeritus when he stepped down from the board in 1951.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2000, the DuPont MIT Alliance (DMA) was formed. Over the next 10 years, the DuPont corporation donated $55 million to the university to fund as many as 20 different research projects.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Later_life">Later life</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pierre_S._du_Pont&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Later life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Pierre retired from DuPont's board in 1940. He also was on the Delaware State Board of Education and donated millions to <a href="/wiki/Delaware" title="Delaware">Delaware</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Public_school_(government_funded)" class="mw-redirect" title="Public school (government funded)">public schools</a>, financing the replacement of Delaware's dilapidated <a href="/wiki/Racial_segregation_in_the_United_States" title="Racial segregation in the United States">Negro schools</a>. </p><p>In 1943, his genealogical research book, <i>Genealogy of the Du Pont family, 1739–1942</i>, was published.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pierre_S._du_Pont&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Alice_Belin_Du_Pont,_1872-1944.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Alice_Belin_Du_Pont%2C_1872-1944.jpg/220px-Alice_Belin_Du_Pont%2C_1872-1944.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="374" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Alice_Belin_Du_Pont%2C_1872-1944.jpg/330px-Alice_Belin_Du_Pont%2C_1872-1944.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Alice_Belin_Du_Pont%2C_1872-1944.jpg/440px-Alice_Belin_Du_Pont%2C_1872-1944.jpg 2x" data-file-width="471" data-file-height="800" /></a><figcaption>du Pont married Alice Belin Du Pont, his first cousin, in 1915; she died in 1944.</figcaption></figure> <p>He was a bachelor until age 45. On October 16, 1915, after the death of his mother, he married his first cousin Alice Belin (1872–1944), a daughter of Henry Belin Jr., from <a href="/wiki/Scranton,_Pennsylvania" title="Scranton, Pennsylvania">Scranton, Pennsylvania</a>. The ceremony was at 400 <a href="/wiki/Park_Avenue" title="Park Avenue">Park Avenue</a> in <a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a>, the home of her brother <a href="/wiki/F._Lammot_Belin" title="F. Lammot Belin">F. Lammot Belin</a>. They were married in New York City because Pennsylvania law prohibited first cousins from marrying.<sup id="cite_ref-1915Wedding_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1915Wedding-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1931CharlesBelin_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1931CharlesBelin-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They had no children.<sup id="cite_ref-MrsduPont1944_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MrsduPont1944-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His wife died at their home in <a href="/wiki/Kennett_Square,_Pennsylvania" title="Kennett Square, Pennsylvania">Kennett Square, Pennsylvania</a>, on June 23, 1944.<sup id="cite_ref-MrsduPont1944_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MrsduPont1944-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Du Pont died nearly ten years later on April 4, 1954, at Memorial Hospital in <a href="/wiki/Wilmington,_Delaware" title="Wilmington, Delaware">Wilmington, Delaware</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-PSdPObit1954_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PSdPObit1954-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After a funeral held at Longwood, he was buried in the Du Pont family cemetery near the <a href="/wiki/Brandywine_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Brandywine River">Brandywine River</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1954Funeral_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1954Funeral-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Legacy">Legacy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pierre_S._du_Pont&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="width: 210px; clear: right; float:right;margin:0 0 1.5em 1.5em"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:115%">External videos</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Pierre_S._DuPont_High_School,_Wilmington,_Delaware_(66688).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Pierre_S._DuPont_High_School%2C_Wilmington%2C_Delaware_%2866688%29.jpg/210px-Pierre_S._DuPont_High_School%2C_Wilmington%2C_Delaware_%2866688%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="210" height="134" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Pierre_S._DuPont_High_School%2C_Wilmington%2C_Delaware_%2866688%29.jpg/315px-Pierre_S._DuPont_High_School%2C_Wilmington%2C_Delaware_%2866688%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Pierre_S._DuPont_High_School%2C_Wilmington%2C_Delaware_%2866688%29.jpg/420px-Pierre_S._DuPont_High_School%2C_Wilmington%2C_Delaware_%2866688%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3312" data-file-height="2113" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="video icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/16px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/24px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/32px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></span></span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA4gWBcXjcE">A Separate Place: The Schools That P.S. du Pont Built (short version)</a>, 26:00, <a href="/wiki/Hagley_Museum_and_Library" title="Hagley Museum and Library">Hagley Museum and Library</a><sup id="cite_ref-Hagley_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hagley-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Du Pont was elected to the <a href="/wiki/American_Philosophical_Society" title="American Philosophical Society">American Philosophical Society</a> in 1917.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1919 du Pont became a member of the Delaware board of education,<sup id="cite_ref-:0_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> becoming president in the 1920s. At the time, state law prohibited money raised from white taxpayers from being used to support the state's schools for black children. Appalled by the condition of the black schools, du Pont donated four million dollars to construct eighty-six new school buildings.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By 1927, it was reported that he had provided school buildings for 43% of Delaware's schoolchildren. In 1925 he became Delaware's tax commissioner, and used his position to modernize the tax office and ensure tax collection.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1927, du Pont became the president of the <a href="/wiki/Association_Against_the_Prohibition_Amendment" title="Association Against the Prohibition Amendment">Association Against the Prohibition Amendment</a>. He and his family were among the major donors to the group.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Du Pont is famous for opening his personal estate, <a href="/wiki/Longwood_Gardens" title="Longwood Gardens">Longwood Gardens</a>, with its beautiful gardens, fountains, and conservatory, to the public. Its construction was inspired by his international travels, visiting the great gardens of the world. </p><p>The former <a href="/wiki/P._S._Dupont_High_School" title="P. S. Dupont High School">P. S. Dupont High School</a> in Wilmington, now a middle school, is named in his honor. A building at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Delaware" title="University of Delaware">University of Delaware</a>, Du Pont Hall, is also named for him.<sup id="cite_ref-1915Gift_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1915Gift-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It houses the offices and laboratories for the College of Engineering.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Du Pont also donated $900,000 towards the construction and establishment of <a href="/wiki/Kennett_High_School_(Pennsylvania)" title="Kennett High School (Pennsylvania)">Kennett High School</a> in 1924, equal to over $12.8M today.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Published_works">Published works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pierre_S._du_Pont&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Published works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFPierre_S._Du_Pont1943" class="citation book cs1">Pierre S. Du Pont (1943). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89082418435"><i>Genealogy of the Du Pont family, 1739-1942</i></a>. Wilmington, DE, US: Hambleton. <a href="/wiki/Hdl_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hdl (identifier)">hdl</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027%2Fwu.89082418435">2027/wu.89082418435</a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/609194857">609194857</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Genealogy+of+the+Du+Pont+family%2C+1739-1942&rft.place=Wilmington%2C+DE%2C+US&rft.pub=Hambleton&rft.date=1943&rft_id=info%3Ahdl%2F2027%2Fwu.89082418435&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F609194857&rft.au=Pierre+S.+Du+Pont&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F2027%2Fwu.89082418435&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APierre+S.+du+Pont" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pierre_S._du_Pont&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Du_Pont_family" title="Du Pont family">Du Pont family</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._S._Dupont_High_School" title="P. S. Dupont High School">P. S. Dupont High School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ross_Point_School" title="Ross Point School">Ross Point School</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pierre_S._du_Pont&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www2.dupont.com/Phoenix_Heritage/en_US/1918_detail.html">"1918 DuPont, GM & Cars"</a>. <a href="/wiki/DuPont" title="DuPont">DuPont</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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